Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading

Team.

THE TRUTH ABOUT JESUS IS HE A MYTH?

ILLUSTRATED

M. M. Mangasarian

[Illustration: Woman Crucified. In the Church of St. Etienne, France.
For a Long Time This Bearded Woman Was Supposed to be the Christ]

If it is not historically true that such and such things happened in Palestine eighteen centuries ago, what becomes of Christianity? —Thomas Huxley.

CONTENTS

PART I
A PARABLE IN CONFIDENCE IS JESUS A MYTH? THE PROBLEM STATED THE CHRISTIAN DOCUMENTS VIRGIN BIRTHS THE ORIGIN OF THE CROSS SILENCE OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS THE STORY OF JESUS A RELIGIOUS DRAMA THE JESUS OF PAUL NOT THE JESUS OF THE GOSPELS IS CHRISTIANITY REAL?